As COVID-19 caseload in India crossed 10 million mark, the oppositionleaders attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over failure of the“unplanned lockdown” strategy to fulfill his claim of defeating viruswithin 21 days.
India’s COVID-19 caseload surpassed 10 million mark on Saturday, adding onemillion cases in nearly a month, while the total number of recoveriessurged to 9.5 million, according to the Indian health ministry data.
“1 crore Covid infections with almost 1.5 lakh deaths! The unplannedlockdown did not manage to win the battle in 21 days’ as the PM claimed,but it surely destroyed millions of lives in the country.” Congress leaderRahul Gandhi said taking a dig at Modi’s remarks in March that theMahabharata war was won in 18 days and the war against coronavirus willtake 21 days.
A day after announcing a national lockdown for three weeks in March,Narendra Modi had said the “battle of Mahabharata was won in 18 days, thewar the whole country is fighting against coronavirus will take 21 days.”
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“Our aim is to win this war in 21 days,” he said interacting with thecitizens of his parliamentary constituency Varanasi via video link.
